Quant Performance Engineer Intern - Summer 2027

Technology is at the heart of modern electronic trading. IMC is seeking highly driven interns to apply quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Perform quantitative research with large datasets to understand exchange technology.
• Design novel strategies to optimize IMC’s liquidity taking and quoting strategies for exchange microstructure.
• Develop ETL pipelines and algorithms in Python to optimize IMC’s ultra-low-latency trading strategies
• Explore novel uses of frontier LLMs to accelerate data and research tasks
• Reverse-engineer and stress-test network and systems programming technologies in order to understand them better than the manufacturers.
• Collaborate closely with Traders and with the Hardware and Software Engineers who will implement your ideas.

Your Skills and Experience: 

• Current university student graduating between September 2027 - July 2028 that is pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technology field.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language is required.
• Exceptional qu